Louisiana school official: Naming streets after MLK is just as racist as Confederate flags

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A member of a Louisiana school board has been asked to resign after she posted some strange arguments about the Confederate flag and racism on her Facebook.

Vicki Bonvillain took to Facebook to try to compare the symbols of the NAACP, Hispanic Scholarship Fund, BET, Black History Month, the Democratic Party and the Black Panthers to the Confederate flag and claimed that those symbols were also racist, saying, “If this symbol represents racism in America SO DO THESE.” That post was made on July 14 but has since been taken down.

A post made on July 9 also had a similar tone, reading, “Our ‘elected officials’ want to accommodate our HISTORY to PLEASE some. WELL shouldn’t ALL ‘MLK’ BLVDs be removed nationwide?”

Terrebonne NAACP chapter President Jerome Boykin has since called for her resignation from the Terrebonne Parish School Board. “I don’t think she deserves to serve the public school system with an attitude like that,” Boykin told the Comet. “Slavery was wrong. The rebel flag is disturbing to African Americans.”

Bonvillain responded on her personal Facebook, in which she claimed to be a “woman Indian minority” and criticized Boykin for attacking her: “I can’t believe one minority will attack another minority for a false political accusation. I look forward to working with my co-minority staff throughout Terrebonne Parish Schools. If I stated a wrong political term, no need for anyone to get upset. It was an honest mistake. I will not have a meeting with the President of the NAACP, like I said they would be the organization to address my matters should they arrive. We are all born in God’s image. If my Christianity causes diversity, it joined other diversity encounters Mr. Boykin may have been politically challenged by.”